Barbara Purcell's Top 10 Only-in-Austin Arts Highlights of 2019
The year seen through a lens of the city, upending the expected and lifting up the unusual
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Barbara Purcell, Dec. 19, 2019
Rosalind Faires' Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019
Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end
Rosalind Faires, Dec. 19, 2019
Trey Gutierrez's Top 10 Moments That Left Audiences Speechless in 2019
The year celebrated through moments when performers stunned their audiences into silence
Trey Gutierrez, Dec. 19, 2019
Jay Trachtenberg's Top Books of 2019
From the social upheaval of the Sixties to the double life of an intelligence agent to the secular past of an Orthodox rabbi, splits resolved into memorable books
Jay Trachtenberg, Dec. 19, 2019
Elizabeth Cobbe's Top 10 Arts Entrances of 2019
It was the onstage arrivals – some creepy, some hilarious, all welcome – that made this year distinctive
Elizabeth Cobbe, Dec. 19, 2019
Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019
History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year’s most memorable shows
Robert Faires, Dec. 19, 2019
Interview With Benjamin Markovits
The Christmas in Austin author talks about his former home
Robert Faires, Dec. 17, 2019
Review: Dear Evan Hansen
This touring version will have you breaking out the tissues
Laura Jones, Dec. 12, 2019
Clarksville's Willis Littlefield Readies His Annual Christmas Lights
The longtime resident is ready to light up his home and hand out holiday sweets for the 22nd Christmas
Barbara Purcell, Dec. 12, 2019
Street Corner Arts' The Butcher of Baraboo
This hilarious production of Marisa Wegrzyn's black comedy starts strong and just keeps getting funnier
Elizabeth Cobbe, Dec. 12, 2019
Ground Floor Theatre and Deaf Austin Theatre's Next to Normal
In this collaboration between the two companies, having signing actors and speaking actors perform side by side provides a uniquely engaging experience
Trey Gutierrez, Dec. 12, 2019
"Rehab El Sadek: Transient" at Prizer Arts & Letters
The artist’s newest exhibition takes a temporary stand in the place where you are
Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 12, 2019
Review: The Santaland Diaries
J. Robert Moore's take on Crumpet sends the Macy's elf to camp
Paul Beutel, Dec. 6, 2019
"Jesse Narens: Creak, Crack, Creep" at Yard Dog Gallery
This Portland artist's images of nature transmogrified are a perfect antidote to holiday overcheer
Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 5, 2019
Benjamin Markovits' Christmas in Austin
In this novel of a family gathering for the holidays, Austin serves as a mirror for the characters, and perhaps for the reader
Robert Faires, Dec. 5, 2019
Janine Barchas’ The Lost Books of Jane Austen
In this nonfiction book, the local scholar provides fresh insight into the ways that Jane Austen became Jane Austen, literary superstar
Robert Faires, Dec. 5, 2019
Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair Has Something for Reader on Your Gift List
Twenty-three Lone Star literary lights will be at Humanities Texas' annual shopping event
Robert Faires, Dec. 5, 2019
Austin Playhouse's She Loves Me
This old-fashioned rom-com musical oozes charm and earns its Pollyanna platitudes
Bob Abelman, Dec. 5, 2019
Different Stages' Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Like the separate parts of the Creature's body, the technical and performance aspects unite to create a delightfully provocative production
Trey Gutierrez, Dec. 5, 2019
Counterprogramming Black Friday on This Week's The Austin Chronicle Show
Wild Bill's Honky Tonk Holidaze in studio, plus Co-Lab's "Texas Toast"
Kimberley Jones, Nov. 29, 2019
Co-Lab Projects' "Texas Toast" Dishes Up a Heapin’ Helping
This group exhibition looks at the food that means the most to us
Robert Faires, Nov. 27, 2019
Austin Shakespeare's As You Like It
An Austin-infused Arden is more poetic license than artistic alchemy
Bob Abelman, Nov. 27, 2019
Beerthoven's Czechs Mix
This program of music by three Czech composers made big music feel right at home in the state where everything's bigger
Robert Faires, Nov. 27, 2019
"Work Play Money Love What It Is What Could Be Both Neither Art Design" at Northern-Southern
This intersection of art and design traffics in graphic and sculptural brilliance
Wayne Alan Brenner, Nov. 27, 2019
"Sarah Fox: Bruisers" at grayDUCK Gallery
In this solo show, boys will be boys, sometimes, and sometimes also horses
Wayne Alan Brenner, Nov. 21, 2019
Fusebox Festival Director Chooses His Top Five Stops for EAST 2019
Ron Berry on what's hot on this year's East Austin Studio Tour
Ron Berry, Nov. 21, 2019
Dance Repertory Theatre's 2019 Fall for Dance
In works ranging from tender to tense, the student dancers in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance embodied the spirit of "I can do anything"
Robert Faires, Nov. 21, 2019
Generic Ensemble Company's The Future of Ismael
This stage adaptation of Siri Gurudev's novel creates a striking sci-fi society but never finds its beating heart
Trey Gutierrez, Nov. 21, 2019
East Austin Studio Tour 2019: Week 2 Recommendations
Looking for something bigger, brighter, wilder than paint on a canvas at this year’s EAST? Do we have some ideas for you
Robert Faires, Nov. 21, 2019
East Austin Studio Tour Maximum Tourage Recommendations
These five places will help you get the most EAST
